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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Syrians Stone Italian Officers: Growing Sympathy For de Gaulle

MEMBERS OF THE ITALIAN ARMISTICE COMMISSION IN SYRIA WERE STONED DURING A RECENT VISIT THEY PAID TO TRIPOLI, AND LOCAL SYRIANS JEERED AT THE ITALIAN OF FICERS AS THEY APPEARED IN PUBLIC, SAYS THE "DAILY HERALD'S" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AT DAMASCUS.

Since then visits which members of the Commission were to have paid to other districts have been postponed. The stoning incident is symptomatic of the increas- ingly difficult situation with which the French High Command is faced.

Besides the Syrian opposition to the Italians, there is grow-j ing sympathy In French Army circles for General de Gaulle. Alarmed by the trend of events, the French High Command has issued what is mean to be a reassuring communique.

It insists that the Italian, Senior ofcers of the French Army. Commission is working with the are strenuously trying to check the French authorities strictly in spread of disillusionment with the

Vichy Government's policy

YANGTZE FIGHTING

CHUNGKING, Dec. 5 (Reu- ter)Severe fighting is going accordance with the letter and This feeling of disillusionment is on in the central Yangtze valley spirit of the Armistice.

belog made all the stronger by rein the vicinity of Pengtsch below It declares that the Armistice ports of RL.A.F. successes, agreement does not involve there not wholehearted in their task,

Many of the officers themselves Kiukiang, according to reports. cession of any part of the Man- and some observers believe that the dated territory.

appearance of

single forceful leader would stimulate open mutiny.

Arrogance

'No Domination' Nevertheless, the Syrians are mok- ing i clear that they will not necept Italian or German dumination.

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The embarrassment of the French authority is certainly not helped by the folians, whose arrogance is more marked than ever,

The head of the Important Maronite section of the population of Lebanon, the Patriarch Arida, recently de- Even formerly anti-French Syrians! manded an urgent meeting with Gen; now declare, that they never bar- erul Paux, French High Commis gained for Itallians. sioner.

Seven more Italians, including # The two men met in the tiny sum-general, have joined the Commission,

removal

here.

Japanese forces are said to have launched attacks on the Chinese post- tions on the south bank of the Yang- tze where the Chinese have been threatening Japanese shipping plying between Shanghal and Hankow.

Cuban Fifth Columnists

Havana, Des. 5 (Reuter)—An Into anti-Democratic

· bathed hillside village of Cedres which numbers 20.

There the aged patriarch nplored | So for the French have resisted de-) the Frenchman not to submit to any-mands for the cession of two import-Investigation

the thing that savoured of Axis demina-ant aerodromes,

of propaganda by Afth columnists in

tion.

coastal defence artillery, and the dis- Cuba and the withdrawal of the Spanish Consul General, Genera Riestra-who is Chief of the Spanish. Falange Party In Cuba-Is demanded by # committee of Senators and House Representatives.

He threatened that if the Frenchmantling of all heavy guns. did submill, the Maronites would ask But the Italians declare they are for British protection.

nt going to accept this refusal.

Duce's Quarrel With Nobles Reach Climax

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In their resolution, the members jurge a Congressional Investigation similar to tho Dies Committee on un- American Activities in the United States, and call upon the Govern- ment to define its foreign policy.

China Almost Self- Sufficient In Steel CHUNGKING, Dec. 5 (Reuter),

The silent and bitter quarrel between the Duce and Italian noble landed proprietors which has been waged for several years has come to a head with the arrival at Lugano (Switzerland) of China will be practically self-sumel- Prince Filippo Doria Pamphily-Landi (who traces his descent em in sicel by the end of the next back to Numa Pompilius) and of Prince Alessandro Torlonin, year, and will be able to cover most Prince of Civitella Cesi, husband of the Infanta Beatrice of Spain. of her military and industrial needs.

A many more noblemen are believed to have involved in this open disapproval of the Duce's policy and they employ thousands day by an official of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, after a conference of agricultural labourers throughout Italy, it would not he sur- with 30 Chinese iron and steel ex-

perts. prising if serious repercussions were forthcoming.

Prince Doria has waged bitter struggle with the Duce for many years. His love of England is well known. His mother was Lady Emily Pelham Clinton, daughter of the Duke of Newcastic, and his wife was Miss Gesina Mary Dykes, a nurse, who cured him of a spinal disease in the early twenties.

prevented tho sterner measures.

trouble

This announcement was made to-

This year, metul production has of his been 30 per cent above last year, drastic Within the next six months, it is which claimed that four-fifths of the new taking furnaces will be at work, reaching a maximum output at the end of

It was only the devotion relatners and the fear that action would cause

Duce from

1041. In Concentration Camp After Italy's Intervention in the war the Prince was sent to a con- centration camp and forced manual labour.

to do

Prince Alessandro Torlonia is not

Egyptian Ministers Appointed

CAIRO, Dec. 5 (Reuter),—Abdel

been so well known, as he has kept out of Hald Fendaoui Pasha has

13- polilles, but incurred the Duce's pointed Finance Minister in success-

ho He has been a sworn enemy of the displeasure because he spoke his ion to Hassan Bey Sadek, who be Dure, who has repeatedly stated that mind at a party. It is confirmed comes Minister of Defence. he would confiscate all the Prince's that over 20,000 persons have been landed estates scattered throughout sent to the islands for similar plain Royal Councillor and a lawyer of the peninsula.

The new Finance Minister · is a

Indeed, on one occasion Mussolint peaking-so-that-Torlonia's-Indisere-international-fame.—lle-had-been-

summoned him to the Venice Palace

tion is nothing new.

daugh-

offered Cabinet posla

minny

times

He was brought up in the United previously but had always refused ar ordered him to pay 3,000,000 States, his mother being Miss Elsie them. sire for arrears in taxes, peintre from Conn., was unable to do so, being rich in ter of the "hardware Innd, but poor in cash, and one estate) was taken away from him.

Hussan Bey Sadek is an engineer- Jing expert whose knowledge will be His uncle, the Duen Torlonin, is valuable to Government in the air- the Duce's landlord.

Irald precautions programme.

CANADA AND U.S. POWER LINK

St. Lawrence Waterway

December 6, 1940.

IN WINDSOR PARK-Against the background of Windsor Castle's ancidnt towars, a German Messerschmitt raidor that crashed in Windsor Park is put on display. Britons view it in curiosity.

Japanese

Withdrawal

Said Due To Disease

Foreign intelligence reports received in Manila reveal that Japanese forces in China apparently were adopting a garrisoning system similar to that employed by the British in India.

These reports were of the At other points such as Canton, ;

Japanese opinion the withdrawal from Hankow and Ichang the Nanning was the result of the were said to be withdrawing their outposts which recently have been occupation of Indo-Chinn, thus suffering heavy casualties from snip- making it unnecessary for the ing. affecting the morale of Nippon Japanese to control the high- troops. The main Japanese forces were being concentrated in the ma- ways at Nanning which former-or cities with Wang Ching-wei's ly fed the Chiang Kai-shek puppet troops being given outpost government.

duty as fast as these forces could be trained.

The withdrawal enabled the Japan-It was assumed that the Japanese ese to eliminate their heavy sick Hats] would then employ flying columns Nanning due to fevera. which were running to 30 per cent at based in the major cities for break- ing up guerrillas when the Chinese These intelligence reports said that concentrations become a menace. it was not expected that the Japanese Although concentration of the ma- would withdraw from other places in jority of the Japanese forces in the China except possibly from Swatow, major cities would be a prelude to where there was niso n henvy tall withdrawal, thus far there are no In-2 from disease. Swntow could be con-¦dications that further withdrawals trolled just as effectively with des-are imminent, and the possiblilty was troyers.

strongly doubted.

Fascism Sheds Its Trousers

In order to economise in the use of textiles, Halian men are now being urged to wear shorts and to go without hats, A campaign with this object has been launched in the Italian Press as one feature of the current programme of economic self-suf- ficiency.

Italian newspapers declare that shorts are not only hygienic but, in the present circumstances, the most patriotic masculine

Thailand Trade With costume.

U.S. Shows Rise The exports of Thailand (Siam) in the first quarter of 1940 increased by 11 per cent. and imports by 35 per cent, over the preceding quarter.

During & forthcoming "self-sufficiency week" to popularise men's war-time clothes-one of a series of similar "weeks" al- ready organised to educate Italians to use exclusively Italian pro- ducts and to economize materials-attention will be directed mainly to the national advantages of the widespread wearing of shorts.

The Federation of Italian Imports from tno United Merchants has already in-

States increased by 143 per cent, structed its members to concen- Newsmen In

during the same period, indicat-trate on displaying shorts for

Thailand upon the United States advertising campaign, using a as a source of supply.

large number of street poster.

DETROIT, Dec, 5 (Revter),—President Roosevelt intends to ask Congress to approve a Trenty with Cannda for the comple-ing the increasing reliance of safe, and will launch a special tion of the St. Lawrence seaway and power project. The President made this announcement to the Great Lake Seaway and Power Conference to-day.

The St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty was signed in Washing- ton in July 1932.

The Treaty, however, was defeated in Congress two years later, partly due to the lobbying exertions of railway and other interests who feared that the existing channels of commerce in the United States would be adversely affected if an ocean-going steamer

CHILD'S 2.1/2 YEAR SLEEP

in

An adverse factor affecting import trade with the United States was the conunued depreciation

dollar value of the baht in line with the "free" rate of sterling, to whien cur rency, the baht is linked. The do- anestic price level continued Its up- ward trend.

Russia Deprived.

MOSCOW. Nov. 29 (UP).-

The Popolo di Roma says that shorts are not only "virite and hy- gienic" but also "an important fun- damental contribution to the battle for self-suhelency," adding that "the | new fashion will liberale men from 1

the useless, bourgeols, cumbersome Foreign correspondents are now long trousers and other accessories being deprived of numerous pro- in addition to the industrial under-

clothes and that complicate takings announced in the fourth render them annoying

vincial newspapers which for quarter of 1830 the Government re- The Lloyd Triestino Shipping Com- vealed in March, 1940, that experi-

pany of Trieste has informed the many years have been a highly

valuable source of news. ELMWOOD PARK, III, Nov.entation was being carried on with Italian Ministry of Communications could sall up a waterway into the 24 (UP)-Mary Ellen Reardon that the Ministry of Economic Af-name to something more Italian

growing of jute in Thailand and that it intends to change, its "Drilialy.

Leading organs of vital Soviet heart of the Great Lakes, thus obtain has marked her fifth birthday in fuirs was drafting plans for pro Commenting on this, Mussolini's political and industrial centres ing direct access to the great disa mysterious sleep which has posed jute rice-bag factory, to be newspaper, Popolo d'Italia, says: are cancelling the annual sub- tributing centres of the Middle West. kept her bed-fast two ́ and a constructed at on estimated cost of "The decision of the former Lloyd (scriptions of correspondents and

Baht 1,000,000.

Triestino Company is praiseworthy embassies accepted at the begin his message to-day, President half years-from which science The Roosevelt said: "It is now of vital has said there will be no rice portance of jute bags to the

the liners of this Italian company. necessity to complete this seaway awakening.

export trade is indicated by the must ply the waters of the Mediter-ning of the year and making | inct that 83,597 bales of gunny bags |ranean under an Italiani name." proportionate refunds. which is comparable in economic

valued at Babt 5,329,701 value to the Panama Canal":

were im- special obser- ported into the kingdom during the

year ended March 31, 1939.

There was no vance of the anniveranry. Her President Roosevelt added that the project would provide millions of parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel untis of electrical energy which we Reardon, and her two-year old EVACUATION OF need to speed up production for brother, Dan, Jr., prayed as they

HOMELESS defence. He concluded, "much of our have every day for 30 months national safety and welfare depends.

that a miracle would restore the Nearly 3,000 East London people on the completion of the project."

girl's consciousness.

rendered homeless by the Nazi bom bers in recent raids have been almost They attended a perpetual novena completely evacuated, being taken by maintained by thousatids. of Chien-lorries and various other vehicles to guans in honour of the sorrowful cinemas, church halls and schools on mother that Mary might see and re- the Essex borders. cognize her parents once more. They sleep thero and 'spend most The blonde, pretty child in fed soft of the day there and at meal tunes

EARLIER CINEMAS

The L. C. C. had given permission for the opening of London cinemas on Sundays at 3 pm-two hours

The refunds are made through the TRIED TO MAKE general post office with an accom

panying formal letter explaining that EXPLOSION:

due to the Increased local demand for Experimenting with chemicals in newspapers, which the present cir- culation' carnot satisfy, mil out of an attempt to discover, a now" ox-

town subcriptions must be cancelled, plosive, two boys recently caused an

Among many others, the United explosion at Felpham, near Bognor Hugis, injuring themselves _and]| Press" la- no longer receiving 'the shaking houses for a quarter of omelal government and party organs mile around.

of Viodlivostok, Leningrad, Kha- Local people, thinking a raid was barovsk, Sverdlovsk, Klov, Mur- in progress, rushed to their shelters.manak and Tifls. The Ilst, grows al

The boys were aged 15 and 14; and most daily, one raid he obtained the chemicnts

carller than at present-so long as foods daily, but responds to no touch fore. taken into local homeslsted had severe injuries to his hands,.and i papers still available are practically

they close by "9 p.m. Performances or word. Brain specialists say schr. More and more are belog will therefore start at 3.30 p.m. It tissue has permanently impaired iho with local people, and it is hoped Is expected that the procedure will nerve centres of her mind and that homes will be found for all of them be adopted by other local authorities. "only a miracle can save lier.” and almost immediately

from his father's chemist's shop. He The tow remaining provincial; his hair, eye lashes and eyebrows of no value since, the consorship bars were badly singed. Tin other boy all political, material not published had a cui over bir loft eyo. ·

in the Moscow press.

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